Our coaches are in the shot as well. Surprisingly, or not surprisingly,
all of them moved to the USA. Yuri Ionin, now retired, was a professor
at Central Michigan University. Gregory Galperin is a professor at
Eastern Illinois University. Sergei Fomin is a professor at the
University of Michigan. Victor Gutenmacher worked for BBN Technologies
and Siemens PLM Software, and is now retired.

There are two more adults in the picture: Valentin Anatolievich
Skvortsov, our leader and Zoya Ivanovna Moiseyeva, our deputy leader.
Skvortsov was working at the math department of Moscow State University
at that time. The University was angry that he didn’t block some
students with Jewish heritage from the team thus allowing them to be
accepted to Moscow State University without exams. I wrote a story of how Zoya persuaded Alexander Reznikov not to go to Moscow University to help Valentin. It ruined Alexander’s live, and didn’t even help Valentin. 1975 was Valentin’s last trip as the leader.